Overview
The evaluation found that that within a context of continued financial restrictions there is an urgent need to rethink UNESCO’s capacity building work in the Basic Sciences and Engineering. There are opportunities for more clearly positioning UNESCO’s contribution in this area to the Agenda 2030 but this can be only done with the support of its networks and partners. The evaluation suggests the UNESCO SC Sector to develop a focused strategy that foresees to delegate and reallocate activities in line with the comparative advantages in the UNESCO family, while pursuing a targeted fundraising strategy. Furthermore, capacity building in the BSE as an integral part of the SC Sector mandate could be designed to support and complement the upstream policy work of the Sector in order to achieve longer-term and sustainable impact